So...whats for dinner?

Hi GMAFoley- Welcome, Glad you could join us, you will have a great time here, and get some good recipes, ohhh i just noticed you are from Roseburg, im not to far from you about 2 hrs. Hmmm that is a shame on the  campbells soup products, maybe a call with help- I bet the alfredo sauce was good thought LOL!

Kay- We did that last year too, but my grand-daughter was staying with us for 2 weeks and we took her, she really enjoyed it, now that she is home in Georgia with her mom and dad, this year she said she bought a bunch of toys for kids and took it too the firehouse/ Im proud of her. Have a fun night out the your old friends, sounds like fun.

Joyce-What a great place for that big beautiful tree to be, i bet it is so happy to be in full view showing off LOL!  Wonderful idea!

Michelle- Aweee Oreo is so cute!! adorable. I had to laugh at you and Apple on the beets statement, i hated the as a kid but love them now, but not boiled i eat them cold right out of the can. 

I almost forgot to mention the chicken braised in beer- OMG! It was so good, not kidding i loved it so did DH! Such good flavors and the carrots and shallots brought out a little sweetness to it. I thought the 8 shallots would be too much but it was not at all, Put in extra carrots. What i used was 3 large skinless, boneless chicken breast and 4 chicken thighs, One thing i added to the recipe was a can of peeled whole tomatoes and a little extra flour to thicken- cooked for an hour and took the lid off and cooked for another 40 minutes. I def recommend this, would be good over rice or noodles too as laurie said, will do that next time when were are off our diets.

Oh and i liked the thighs better because the boneless, skinless chx although was still good was a little more stringyer.

stage1 - I use a sauce like that for casseroles all the time.  I often add garlic and onions, chopped or sliced mushrooms, a bit of soup base (a paste like bullion but less salty)

The chocolate fondue is easy peasy.  A couple of cups of semi-sweet choloate chips (or mix with peanut butter chips), and 1/2 - 1 cup of sweet cream.  melt in the fondue pot.  Cut up marshmallows or use mini marshmallows, bananas, strawberries, angel food cake cut into small squares.

I have a whole book of recipes for fondue.

LuvRVing - what an adorable pci of the dog with Santa.

Tonight was chicken cordeon blue (cheat) : Large full chicken breast, boned.  it has a natural slit to stuff with sliced deli ham, rolled with swiss cheese.  Tuck it in the slit.  Hold in place with toothpicks.  Roll the chicken "ball" in italian seasoned bread crumbs and bake at 350 for about 35-40 minutes.  Lay another slice of swiss ontop and bake for 3-5 min more, just to melt the cheese, but not brown it.  Serve with honey mustard mayo for dipping, and baked potatoe with sour cream and chives.

GmaFoley, as someone else posted just make a plain white sauce. It is not hard and it can be made with milk insteadof cream as well and even with part broth and part milk.

I used to love the canned pickled beets when I was younger. I guess I still do, but I don't buy them.



Very cute picture Michelle. I should get my dog's taken.



Ducky, I am still trying a lot of different coffees. I liked the two wolf gang puck ones I tried. I think one was Hawaiian blend or something and one was breakfast blend. I had the chai latte again this morning, but now I think it's a little too sweet. There is sugar already in it. I will try the khalua. Let me know if you have any other suggestions. I got mine at the bed bath and beyond on Baltimore pike in Springfield. I am guessing you go to the same one. I was there yesterday. I am baking some cookies again today and taking veggie chilli out of the freezer for dinner.

Apple  funny on the beets...my mom always served them and I think I ate them but now havent had them since being on my own...guess they didint make that big of an impression.

Going to Syracuse to pick up my daughter from the bus station.  coming home from NYC for the holidays.  then my son arrives on Friday from Ohio and life will be good!!

Never tried to make a chicken pot pie...my DS made me one when i was going through chemo...mostly so my DH had food, and he loved it and wants me to get the recipe and make it for him, but I just cant get past the smell of it since chemo...one of those flashback memories.

Gmafoley  welcome to this thread.....who knew about the campbells soup?

Going to a "hump night" Christmas party tonight...it will be an appetizer dinner.  Must stock up on the groceries with the kids being here.  We bought a prime rib roast for Christmas dinner.

Carrie- I had the same problem with certain smells that i either ate or smelled during chemo, but it is much better now, they say you shouldnt eat your favorite foods while going through tx. Have a fun time at "Hump night" tonight. When you first mentioned Hump night and had never heard of it I told my friends we should have a hump night, well that really got the conversation flowing and us laughing. LOL!

Michelle- Havnt heard from you are feeling ok?

Debbie - the benadryl doesn't make me very sleepy.  I was hoping that it would, actually.`But it did help with the itching and my skin didn't bother me all night.  It doesn't look too bad this morning. 

Oh, "Joyce's pizza shop" - she and her DH owned a shop and my family has been customers since we were teenagers.  They sold the shop to one of the people who work there, but her DH still has a little hand in it.  So technically they don't own it.  But it's hard for me to not think of it as theirs because I've known the shop for at least 45 years.  And it's about a mile away from where my mom lived for 14 years and where her best friend lives. 

I need to finish my shopping today - need to pick up a few things for DH...he has offered very few ideas and a couple days ago  I finally told him he couldn't leave the house until he gave me two suggestions or I would get him an iPad.  Turns out he wants an iPad....who knew?  So I'm off to the Apple store later.  And I need to get things for his stocking.  We just can't get away from the stockings...my DD has done them for years for everyone in the family and this year I told her we'd take care of ours.  It gets expensive but the grandkids think that Santa fills one for everyone and we'll be there Christmas morning, so we are not ready to spoil that idea.  I also need to get a few things for the grandpuppy! 

Carberry yum.  I think there is a guide somewhere that helps people identify the type of chocolate (cherry filled etc) from the swirl on top)  I will have to get that I have bitten into too many only to find uh oh! peach mush. And it will stop my daughter from poking them.

Tonight, oh, I don't know.  I think I'll wander around  Whole (Paycheck) Foods and see what looks good.

I don't know where else to put this but I come here most so...... I think I got all three jobs I interviewed for in RI!!!!!   I told one of them about the BC because they were a small group and I thought that it was only fair in case thier ins rates went through the roof. They didn't care. The other 2 I just told them my office closed. 

Next week is my first follow up mammogram. It better be alright cause I'm going to work!

I decided on spilt pea soup, pears, bread and yogurt with honey for dinner. Making soup now.

Getting so excited about Christmas!  My neighbors will be going to Christmas Eve service at Unitarian Church too. My daughter, her BF, me, my friend Julie are going too and maybe my brother. Maybe my brother and my friend Julie?....; )  Oh, I'm a meddler. 

Luvrving,

When my daughter was little I bought one of those big sleigh bells like the ones that you find on a red ribbin decoration.   I left it on the outside window sill. (my daughter was concerned because we didn't have a chimney)  When I "found " it she was so excited that maybe it came from Rudolf!

Congratulation on getting through rads the way you are..  I used cortison cream too and really kept things lubricated with Aquaphor.after rads each day and then again at night.  It worked really well. No hot showers!  I know, it's tempting this time of year and put the cream on afterwards to hold in the moister.

Carrie- The crab cakes sounds good i will have to make them soon, We have a fish monger here on the beach that has the best fresh crab now my mouth is watering.

Bedo- Yay on the jobs, in this ecomomy its hard to get 1 let alone 3 Good for you!

Michelle-Isnt that amazing that your family was connected to Joyce way before you knew her and then you met her through this forum,, There are no coincedences.

Laurie-  Stupid smart brother.  Dumb proud father of stupid smart brother' That is sooooo funny,! LOL!  I also had your Chicken salsa as Lauries chicken salsa.

The stories on christmas brings back memories, my mom knew we tryed to "Sneak" at our presents so she would number them different every year, so all 4 of us would open them all while mom was sleeping and then try to wrap them back up so she wouldnt know. Then she started hiding them and not putting them out untill we went to bed on christmas eve.LOL! 

I bought DH a freezer (smaller one) for his venison, i dont have enough room in mine, plus i dont want his stuff mixed in with mine. but it wont fit in my car or his jeep so i will just give him the reciept in a card and let him pick it up himself.

Having leftover braised chicken tonight so wont have to cook (Yay)

I'm going to beg the hubbie to take me out to dinner tonite.. his choice, which will mean BBQ... (ick)

 I'm exhausted, relatively.

 I got my hair cut.. I often cut it myself but haven't been taking the usual obsessive care with it like i used to.  My hairdresser is a slash and burner.. She really cuts off a lot, but it always looks fantastic and pretty cute after a week.